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Emin's career blossomed in the 90s, being nominated for the Turner Prize and creating such works as "Everyone I've Ever Slept With" and "My Bed."
Tracey Emin's Pop Up Exhibition At Louis Vuitton, London (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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Emin's images feature nude female figures, many in suggestive poses, but sleep is portrayed alongside sex: one reads, "AT NIGHT I CANT SLEEP ANYMORE MY MIND IS WRAPPED UP IN UNKOWN FEAR" sic.
Tracey Emin's Pop Up Exhibition At Louis Vuitton, London (PHOTOS) The Huffington Post News Editors 2011
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As Jennifer Doyle says, about looking at Emin's repeated graphic versions of what Courbet calls "the origin of the world", "I couldn't help but think: 'Isn't this how Judy Chicago and Georgia O'Keeffe are supposed to make me feel but don't?'"
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Something in this resembles the versatile split-second shift from cloy to edge, from acrid to sentiment and back again, in Emin's work; the neon Be Faithful to your dreams (1998) next to Good Smile Great Come (2000) next to MY CUNT IS WET WITH FEAR (1998) next to Love is What You Want (2011).
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I wonder if, along with My Bed and the now lost Everyone I Have Ever Slept With 1963–1995 (which was destroyed in the Momart fire of 2004, and which Emin refuses to remake), one of Emin's most enduring images will prove to be the photograph Monument Valley (Grand Scale) (1995–97).
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What would Stein, the great literary experimenter, have made of Emin's emendation?
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John GummerConservative, House of Lords• Although not rich enough to buy Tracey Emin's unmade bed Report, 17 May, I – and many thousands of Labour voters – buy art and support local artists.
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It's not a pretty image, but besides recalling the subject beloved of painters, Danaë impregnated with a golden shower by Zeus, it is a perfect parable for the arc of Ms. Emin's career, where fame and money take the place of the children she repeatedly tells us she cannot have.
You Can Have Too Much of What You Want Paul Levy 2011
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The focus on strangeness; the understanding that something strange introduced into the structure of things renews things: Stein's isn't a bad lens through which to see Emin's own practice.
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Emin's ear for the right word in the right place, and for the resonances of "rightness" and "wrongness" in word and place, are at the basis of her art.
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